Tool



L.- WEINSTEIN A lluly 23, 1935.

TOOL

Filed Sept. 28, 1933 l @Trap/ffy Patented July 23, 1935 UENTED STATES PATENT OFFICE Y V1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to tools and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful improvement in tools especially adapted for use in the attachment upon shoes of toe, heel, and other such plates.

My invention has for its object the provision of a tool for the purpose stated, which is simple and durable in structure, which may be inexpensively manufactured, which may be most conveniently manipulated, and which is exceedingly efficient in rapidly effecting the attachment of the particular plates with total elimination of injury to the lingers of the workman or operator.

And with the above and other objects in View, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claim.

n the accompanying drawing,-

Figure l is a plan view oi a tool of my invention in position for a plate-attaching operation, but` with its anvil thrown back for placement in the tool of the plate to be attached;

Figure 2 illustrates the tool partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section, showing the tool with its anvil in position for a plate-attaching operation;

Figure 3 is a similar View of the tool, showing the tool receiving the impacting blow of a hammer in a plate-attaching operation; and

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional View of a shoe, illustrating the iinal step in the plate-attaching operation.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, A designates a suitably elongated plate-like metallic strip of preferably oblong-rectangular contour preferably strengthened by a longitudinal central rib or corrugation i and by a preferably continuous relatively shallow marginal lateral ange 2. Intermediate the ends of the strip A and upstanding from the flange 2, is a pair of registering apertured ears 3 for purposes presently appearing, the portion of the strip A to one side of the ears 3, or the left-hand portion thereof as here shown, being preferably somewhat reduced in width in the provision of a handle i for convenient manipulation of the tool.

The opposite or righthand portion 5 of the strip A forms or provides what may be designated as the body of the tool, which at or adja-u cent its outer end is provided with an opening or aperture 6, the metal of the body 5 in the formation of the opening 6 being laterally upset or flanged downwardly in the provision about the opening 5 of a wall forming with the opening t a seat for a shoe-toe or other such plate B, which is to be attached to and upon the sole or heel 8 of a shoe C. It will be understood, of course, that the seat 'l may be of various sizes and configuration eonformably with the particular plate B to be attached to the shoe C and is slightly of reduced size relatively to the particular plate B to support the plate and yet permit the plate to be forced therethrough under pressure without undue deformation of the particular plate.

D designates a second plate-like metallic strip, which at its rear end is pivotally, by means of outwardly presented opposed lugs 9 engaging with the ears 3, attached for swingable movement to and over the plate A, and which is of dimensions relatively to the body 5 to fit, when in operative plate-attaching position, largely over the body 5 and within the. coniines of its surrounding marginal flange 2, as best seen in Figure 3.

E designates the anvil proper, which is constructed preferably of suitably hardened steel, whose body-portion I0 is provided with a projecting head Il suitably pressed or otherwise Xed in an opening provided for the purpose in the free end of the strip D in co-operative relation to the seat 1, and whose body l0 is also proportioned or dimensioned to snugly fit the opening t, the anvil body ID being provided preferably centrally on its under face, for purposes shortly appearing, with a projecting teat I2.

In the present instance, a toe-platev B is to be attached to and upon the outer sole 8 of the shoe C. Hence, in operation, the strip D is rst thrown back into so-called inoperative position, or into the relative position thereof shown in Figure 1, and the plate B is disposed in the seat 'i with its prongs presented outwardly. The strip D is then swung to so-ealled operative position, or into the position thereof illustrated in Figure 2, in which position the anvil E is presented over the seated plate B, its teat l2 entering an aperture I3 usually provided in the body of the plate B and thereby firmly holding the plate B to its seat.

The tool is then suitably manipulated by means of the handle Il to position the seated plate B in the desired location on the shoe-sole 8.

By means then of a hammer or other suitable tool F, an impacting blow is delivered upon the anvil-head Il, under th-e force of which the anvil-body l0 is driven down into the seat 'I and the plate B. thereby forced or driven therefrom and attached by means of its prongs to and upon the shoe C, the teat I2 in such operation also forming in the shoe-sole 8 an indentation for facilitating the placement of a tack or nail I4 for subsequently more securely, as shown in Figure 4, attaching the plate B to and upon the shoe C.

The particular plate B being so .attached to the shoe, the tool is freed of the plate and is now ready for additional similar operations.

The tool fullls in every respect the object stated, and it is to be understood that changes in the form, construction, arrangement and combination of the several parts of the tool may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

A tool comprising, in combination, an elongated, rigid, approximately at metallic strip integrally providing a body-portion and a handle for manipulating the body-portion flatwise on a shoe-heel for the attachment thereto of a shoeplate, the strip being formed intermediate its ends with upwardly presented laterally projecting registering apertured ears and said bodyportion being formed adjacent its outer end with a through aperture whose wall is formed with a registering downwardly presented ange operatively providing a rigid plate-seat, a lengthwise reduced second approximately at strip connected pivotally with said ears for swingable movement over the body-portion o1" the rst strip, and an anvil supported by and at the free end of the second strip and including a head and a body-portion, the anvil body-portion conforming in contour with the seat for forcing the seated plate through and out of the seat under the force of an impacting blow delivered upon the anvil-head.

LEON WEINSTEIN. 

